• Romi Crawford
• Founder, The New Art School Modality and Black Arts Movement School Modality; Professor of Visual and Critical Studies
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Romi Crawford, PhD, has a research practice that explores areas of race and ethnicity as they relate to American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). Her work often centers on, and expands the bounds of, Black Arts Movement ideas and aesthetics and positions pedagogical impulses in relation to art making. Select publications include; co-author of The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017); Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect (Green Lantern Press, 2021); “Reading Between the Photographs: Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Photographic Workshop,” in Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop (Duke University Press, 2020); and “Surface and Soul in the Work of Nick Cave” in Nick Cave: Forothermore (DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2022). Recent curatorial projects include “So Be It! Ase!: Photographic Echoes of Festac’77” (2023) and “Citing Black Geographies” (2022). She founded the Black Arts Movement School Modality and the New Art School Modality, and is professor in the Visual and Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.